wedrifid comments on Hanson Debating Yudkowsky, Jun 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 04 July 2011 06:45:35AM 3 points [-]

I find Hanson to be hugely more effective in the recording. Is it because of this?

Partly. Hanson is a far more powerful rhetorician then Eliezer. He speaks with the kind of language that is far more persuasive to the majority of people. It is only a narrow audience with particularly high standards with respect to judging "tendentious" tendencies for whom his style backfires.

Comment author: XiXiDu 04 July 2011 12:19:18PM *  4 points [-]

Hanson is a far more powerful rhetorician then Eliezer. He speaks with the kind of language that is far more persuasive to the majority of people.

Off-topic: How do you like the style of Nick Bostrom? Here is another video of him.